Old community cookbooks hold more than recipes: they preserve stories, traditions, tribal knowledge and the culinary DNA of a place. Cooking the Past Forward is my new Glover Gardens journey to explore that knowledge, follow the questions it raises and carry the best of the past into our kitchens and onto our tables today.

Some workdays stay with you. This is a reflection on storytelling at APQC Connect 2026, where simple stories helped ideas land, people connect, and a room full of participants grow as storytellers in just two hours.

A short story about a treasured moment with my son about learning from mistakes, whether your own or others.

Yours truly is the interviewee in this podcast, and I’m talking about culture, knowledge management and lessons learned.